It is generally believed that jailhouses are nothing but home for evils. While jailhouses are meant to imprison criminals and to punish them, almost every jailhouse takes steps to build moral character of the inmates too. Many jailhouses have in house education facilities for the inmates while others provide the prisoners opportunities to learn and develop crafting skills. Such skills help them to make a good use of their time in the jail plus it also helps them to make a reasonable earning out of it.
One such example is being set by the inmates of Florida Hillsborough County Jail where the inmates have set up a small business if their own. The aspiring inmates have started cooking hot sauce and sell it under the brand name Jailhouse Fir Hot Sauce. Yes, the heat is now coming from a jailhouse! The Florida Hillsborough County Jail has an indoor horticulture program and trusted inmates are allowed to learn and work their. The inmates are mainly growing peppers in the horticulture farm of the jail. The Jailhouse Fire Hot Sauce is made from these peppers. The idea of making a hot sauce came from the bland and tasteless food of the jailhouse. Hence, the inmates decided to cook the sauce from the peppers they grow. The idea of making hot sauce was initiated by the head of the horticulture at the Jail Allen Boatman.
Allen Boatman researched about different recipes of the hot sauce and hence started the brand. Boatman involved the inmates in the program and hence started entrepreneurship. The inmates say that they learn so many things by working together like professionalism, working as a team, and marketing your product. They also say that it will help them to make a better living for themselves once they get released from the jail.
Jailhouse Hot Sauce is available in three different flavors and can be bought from the stall at the jail. The sauce can also be ordered online at jailhousefire.org.
The inmates are selling the sauce at sale price and the offer is valid for limited period of time.
Jailhouse Hot Sauce
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